Enhancing Public Health Communication Regarding Vaccine Trials: Design and Development of the Pan-European VACCELERATE Toolkit

Christos D Argyropoulos   ¹ , MSci, MSc, PhD ;   Janina Leckler   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   Jon Salmanton-García   ^{2, 3} , MSc, PhD ;   Marinos Constantinou   ¹ , BSc ;   Alexandra Alexandrou   ¹ , BSc ;   Sophia Themistocleous   ¹ , MSc ;   Evgenia Noula   ¹ ;   George Shiamakkides   ¹ , MSc ;   Andria Nearchou   ¹ ;   Fiona A Stewart   ^{2, 3} , MSc, PhD ;   Kerstin Albus   ^{2, 3} , MSc, PhD ;   Markela Koniordou   ⁴ , MRes ;   Ioannis Kopsidas   ⁴ , MD, PhD ;   Orly Spivak   ⁵ , MSc ;   Margot Hellemans   ⁶ , MSc ;   Greet Hendrickx   ⁶ , MSc ;   Ruth Joanna Davis   ⁷ , MSc ;   Anna Maria Azzini   ⁷ , MD ;   Paula Valle Simon   ^{8, 9} , MSc ;   Antonio Javier Carcas-Sansuan   ^{8, 9} , MD, PhD ;   Helena Hervius Askling   ^{10, 11} , MD, PhD ;   Sirkka Vene   ^{10, 11} , MSc ;   Jana Baranda Prellezo   ¹² , MSc ;   Elena Álvarez-Barco   ¹³ , PhD ;   Alan J Macken   ¹³ , MSc ;   Romina Di Marzo   ¹⁴ , BSc ;   Catarina Luís   ¹⁴ , MSc, PhD ;   Ole F Olesen   ¹⁴ , PhD ;   Jesus A Frias Iniesta   ^{8, 9} , MSc, PhD ;   Imre Barta   ¹⁵ , PhD ;   Krisztina Tóth   ¹⁵ , MD ;   Murat Akova   ¹⁶ , MD ;   Marc M J Bonten   ^{17, 18} , MD, PhD ;   Miriam Cohen-Kandli   ⁵ , PhD ;   Rebecca Jane Cox   ¹⁹ , PhD ;   Lenka Součková   ^{20, 21, 22} , PhD ;   Petr Husa   ^{20, 21, 22} , MUDr, PhD ;   Ligita Jancoriene   ^{23, 24} , MD, PhD ;   Odile Launay   ^{25, 26} , MD ;   Jens Lundgren   ²⁷ , MD, DMSc ;   Patrick Mallon   ¹³ , PhD ;   Charis Armeftis   ¹ , MD ;   Laura Marques   ²⁸ , MD ;   Pontus Naucler   ^{10, 11} , MD, PhD ;   Jordi Ochando   ¹² , PhD ;   Evelina Tacconelli   ⁷ , MD, PhD ;   Pierre van Damme   ⁶ , MD, PhD ;   Theoklis Zaoutis   ⁴ , MD, PhD ;   Sanne Hofstraat   ²⁹ , MSc ;   Patricia Bruijning-Verhagen   ²⁹ , MD, PhD ;   Markus Zeitlinger   ³⁰ , MD ;   Oliver A Cornely   ^{2, 3, 31, 32, 33} , MD, PhD ;   Zoi Dorothea Pana   ¹ , MD, MSc, PhD

¹ School of Medicine, European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

² Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-Associated Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

³ Center for Integrated Oncology Aachen Bonn Cologne Duesseldorf and Excellence Center for Medical Mycology, Department I of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

⁴ Collaborative Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes Research, Athens, Greece

⁵ Ministry of Health of Israel, Jerusalem, Israel

⁶ VAXINFECTIO, Centre of Evaluation of Vaccination, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

⁷ Infectious Diseases, Department of Diagnostic and Public Health, University of Verona, Verona, Italy

⁸ Hospital La Paz Institute for Health Research, Madrid, Spain

⁹ Servicio Madrileño de Salud, Madrid, Spain

¹⁰ Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

¹¹ Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

¹² Centro Nacional de Microbiología, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

¹³ Centre for Experimental Pathogen Host Research, School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

¹⁴ European Vaccine Initiative, Heidelberg, Germany

¹⁵ National Koranyi Institute for Pulmonology, Budapest, Hungary

¹⁶ Department of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Haceteppe University, Ankara, Turkey

¹⁷ Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

¹⁸ Department of Medical Microbiology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

¹⁹ Influenza Centre, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

²⁰ Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

²¹ University Hospital Brno, Brno, Czech Republic

²² Czech Clinical Research Infrastructure Network, Brno, Czech Republic

²³ Institute of Clinical Medicine, Medical Faculty, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

²⁴ Vilnius University Hospital Santaros klinikos, Medical Faculty, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

²⁵ Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale - France Recherche Nord & Sud Sida- HIV Hépatites Maladies Infectieuses Émergentes, Paris, France

²⁶ Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France

²⁷ Centre of Excellence for Health, Immunity and Infections, Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

²⁸ Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto, Porto, Portugal

²⁹ University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

³⁰ Medizinische Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria

³¹ Clinical Trials Centre Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

³² Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

³³ German Centre for Infection Research, Partner Site Bonn-Cologne, Cologne, Germany